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Ferry Across Lake Michigan

Frequent road-trippers heading to Michigan from Wisconsin know the hassle of driving through Chicago, Illinois almost any time of day. Weather permitting, Lake Express car ferry to the rescue, covering the eighty miles of Lake Michigan separating Milwaukee, Wisconsin from Muskegon, Michigan. Tickets are kind of spendy, but hey, convenience doesn’t come cheap. The one-way…

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Road Trip: MOOSE JAW, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA

Destination, Moose Jaw. I mean, the name alone is reason enough to check out this city nestled in the heart of Saskatchewan, along the Trans-Canadian Highway. And there’s some fascinating history here. Are you a Harry Potter fan? Moose Jaw is the hometown of the professional Quidditch team the Moose Jaw Meteorites. But that’s not all. Downtown…

Never Look Away film still of Kurt Barnert (Edward Schilling) and Ellie Seeband (Paula Beer) on there first date walking in the park
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Film Review: NEVER LOOK AWAY

  A master of storytelling, director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, best known for award-winning films, The Lives of Others (2006) and The Tourist (2010), brings us Never Look Away, the story of an artist struggling to find his voice while living in Dresden under Nazi occupation. Loosely based on the artist Gerhard Richter,  there is not…

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Road Trip: California to Colorado

It started out innocently, a road trip from San Francisco to a friend’s ranch in Colorado. Our jaunty vacation soon turned into a lesson on the wilds of country life. Turns out this Diva had forgotten quite a bit of her Girl Scout survival skills. More on that later. Unaware of impending natural and human…

DRIVER X: film review

DRIVER X: film review

Inebriated millennial walks into an Uber. What’s the punch line? Well, you can’t make this stuff up, as one middle-aged house husband discovered when thrown into the Gig Economy. That was Henry Barrial, writer and director of DriverX, who found himself in need of cash and signed up to drive. Chauffering young techies around all…